Bookmans Flagstaff has renewed their tremendously popular MIC program for the entire 2010-2011 school year. Bookmans pays an instructor to volunteer in seven classes a week for thirty-two weeks, free to the Head Start classrooms of Flagstaff. Chuck Cheesman, the program instructor, has degrees in both music and elementary education, three commercially available CDs, and has taught elementary school for five years in Chicago. Chuck was a Wiggleworms instructor at Chicago's Old Town School of Folk Music where he had the Obama family in one of his eight week sessions!

The Head Start teachers of Flagstaff are delighted to have the program back this year. Not only does each class receive a session of free music and movement education each week all school year, but the teachers get a free ukelele, kids' songs CD and a songs workshop with Cheesman so that they are able to better incorporate music in their classroom in the future. Music education is often the first to go when school districts start making cuts, and Bookmans is determined to do our part to keep music in the classroom.